Thanh Nguyen

I am Lewis B. Cullman Rising Star Professor
My research interests include Market Design, Network Economics and Computational Game Theory. My research has been supported by NSF and DARPA.

Contact

  • 4021 RAWL, 403 W. State Street,
    West Lafayette, IN 47907-2056
  • nguye161@purdue.edu
  • (765) 49-48658

Courses at Purdue

  • Market Design (Ph.D), 2022
  • Optimization for Data Science (MS BAIM), 2021
  • Algorithmic Decisions (Ph.D), 2020
  • Business Analytics (MBA), 2015-2019
  • Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling (Undergrad), 2017-2021
  • Economic and Social Networks (Ph.D), 2014


Working Papers

  1. Approximate Auctions with Budgets
    with Alexander Teytelboym
  2. Equilibrium Existence and Implementability
    with Alexander Teytelboym
  3. Dynamic Combinatorial Assignment
    with Alexander Teytelboym and Shai Vardi
  4. Learning Non-parametric Choice Models with Discrete Fourier Analysis
    with Haoyu Song and Hai Nguyen WINE 2023

Pubications

  1. Thanh Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra
    (Near) Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities
    Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming
  2. Robert Marquez, Thanh Nguyen and Deniz Yavuz
    Financing Innovative Activity and the Endogeneity of Patenting
    Management Science ( pdf )
  3. Young-san Lin, Hai Nguyen, T. Nguyen and Kemal Altinkemer
    Allocation with Weak Priorities and General Constraints
    Operations Research Vol. 70, No. 5 , 2022 (abstract accepted at EC 2021) (pdf)
  4. Young-San Lin, Tao Jiang, T. Nguyen
    Quantity Competition in Multi-tier Supply Chain Networks
    Naval Research Logistics, Vol 69, Issue 3, 2022 (abstract accepted at WINE 2020) (pdf)
  5. Hai Nguyen, T. Nguyen and Alexander Teytelboym
    Stability in Matching Markets with Complex Constraints
    Management Science, Vol 67, Issue 12, 2021 (pdf) (abstract accepted at EC 2019)
  6. Thanh Nguyen and Karthik Kannan,
    Welfare Implications in Intermediary Networks
    Information Systems Research, Vol 32, Issue 2, June 2021
  7. Berry, Honig, Nguyen, Subramanian, Vohra,
    The Value of Sharing Intermittent Spectrum
    Management Science, Vol. 66, No. 11, 2020 (pdf)
  8. Thanh Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra,
    Stable Matching with Proportionality Constraints
    Operations Research, Vol. 67, No. 6, 2019 (pdf) (abstract accepted at EC 2017)
  9. Thanh Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra,
    Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Couples.
    American Economic Review, Vol. 118, No. 11, 2018 (old version)
  10. Thanh Nguyen,
    Local Bargaining and Supply Chain Instability,
    Operations Research, Volume 65, Issue 6, 2017 (abstract accepted at EC 2014)
  11. T. Nguyen, H. Zhou, R. Berry, M. Honig and R. Vohra,
    The Cost of Free Spectrum
    Operations Research, Volume 64, Issue 6, 2016 (pdf)
  12. Thanh Nguyen, Ahmad Peivandi and Rakesh Vohra,
    Assignment Problems with Complementarities
    Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 165, 2016 (pdf)
  13. Thanh Nguyen, Randall Berry and Vijay Subramanian,
    Delay in Trade Networks
    Operations Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, 2016 (pdf)
  14. Thanh Nguyen,
    Coalitional Bargaining in Networks
    Operations Research, Volume 63, Issue 3, 2015 (pdf) (abstract accepted at EC 2013)
  15. Thanh Nguyen,
    A simple LP relaxation for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
    Mathematical Programming, Volume 141, 2013
  16. R. Berry, M. Honig, V. Subramanian, T. Nguyen, H. Zhou, R. Vohra,
    News-vendor model of capacity sharing,
    Performance Evaluation Review Volume 40 (2), 2012
  17. Thanh Nguyen,
    On the disjoint paths problem,
    Operations Research Letters, Volume 35, 1, 2007


Book Chapters

Nguyen and Vohra, Complementarities and Externalities ,
Online and Matching-Based Market Design.
Echenique, Immorlica and Vazirani, Editors. Cambridge University Press. 2022

Refereed Conference Papers (selected)


  • R Berry, M Honig, T Nguyen, V Subramanian, H Zhou, R Vohra
    Market structures for wireless services with shared spectrum, Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton) 2013
  • R Berry, M Honig, T Nguyen, V Subramanian, H Zhou, R Vohra
    On the Nature of Revenue-Sharing Contracts to Incentivize Spectrum-Sharing, INFOCOM 2013
  • Thanh Nguyen, Milan Vojnovic
    Weighted proportional allocation, ACM SIGMETRICS 2011
  • Thanh Nguyen, Eva Tardos
    Approximate pure Nash equilibria via Lovasz local lemma, WINE 2009
  • Thanh Nguyen, Eva Tardos,
    Parallel Imaging Problem, European Symposium on Algorithms 2008
  • Thanh Nguyen, Eva Tardos,
    Approximately maximizing efficiency and revenue in polyhedral environments, EC 2007
  • Ephraim Korach, Thanh Nguyen, and Britta Peis,
    Subgraph characterization of red/blue-split graph and konig egervary graphs. ACM-SIAM SODA 2006.